01:920:314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: International Inequality, Nationstates, Simulacrum
6 Dec 2016
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Implies lack of control, lack of structure, lack of meaning. Postmordernism: the search for authenticity, identity, and control. The world (and our selves) is fragmented and inauthentic. Ideals to strive for: nihilis(cid:373) (cid:894)(cid:449)hy (cid:271)other tryi(cid:374)g(cid:895) is a the(cid:373)e e(cid:448)erythi(cid:374)g is a(cid:271)surd, (cid:272)haoti(cid:272), (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)gless, a(cid:374)d out of control. We can control our lives through reason, science, and democracy. We must be critical of our institutional structures (capitalism and rising bureaucracy) so that they do not overtake as by becoming tools of elites. Jeremy bentham (early ideas: how power is exercise in modern society. Governmentalities: the practices and techniques by which power and control are exercised over people, different forms: Technology (location settings, street cameras, social media. Consumption as language: code: a system of rules that allows us to understand the meaning of signs. (the meaning associated with consuming certain things). It tweaks our desires to consume: signs: trade-mark images. Every consumer object has a sign associated with it.
